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People in Les Coteaux, Que., will gather in church Saturday with an eight-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a fire that killed his family.

Immediately re-opening nine regional veteran's affairs offices shut down last year would be a good start for newly installed Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O'Toole, says one veterans support group.

Canadian Blood Services is speaking out against a union ad campaign that warns proposed contract changes could put the safety of Canada's blood supply in jeopardy and at risk of another 1980s tainted blood scandal.

James Alfred Cooper, who has been described as Canada’s worst pedophile, is now living freely in Toronto after serving 21 years behind bars for the brutal rape and torture of six kids in the Hamilton area.

British Columbia has banned the transport of oil on pipelines built specifically for proposed liquefied natural gas terminals, in an effort to quell fears that those lines could eventually be converted to carry oil sands crude to coastal markets.

Just last year, James Alfred Cooper, Canada’s most notorious pedophile, was yanked back to prison over fears he was returning to his horrific child-preying behaviour.

Official negotiations for the deportation of Canadian-born television producer Mohammed Fahmy from a Cairo prison are in a "critical phase," Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says.

A 26-year-old Barrie man faces charges after he allegedly surfed the web in search of parents who would let him sexually abuse their kids.

A theatregoer with cerebral palsy who said he was denied a large bag for his medium-sized popcorn is pleased with the theatre chain's response.

Police in Drummondville, Que., are looking for a motorist who chased a pedestrian and crushed his leg on New Year's Day.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper reacted with horror to a "barbaric" attack on the office of a satirical French magazine that left 12 dead and more than 20 injured.

Nova Scotia Energy Minister Andrew Younger has taken a leave of absence to deal with matters related to being the victim of an alleged assault by a former Liberal staffer, sources told The Chronicle Herald.

STONY PLAIN -- A man accused of sexually assaulting and beating a six-year-old Paul Band First Nation girl made his first appearance by CCTV in court on Wednesday.

A judge sentenced a 49-year-old Delhi, Ont., woman to go back to school for faking a home invasion.

The horrible terrorist attack in Paris Wednesday came hours after Prime Minister Stephen Harper named as his new national security adviser a top bureaucrat who once warned that Canada's failure to deal with the threat of terrorism was "a serious blind spot."

Days before she was found dead in her Strathmore, Alta., home, Brenda Walker blogged about the heartache of breaking up with her boyfriend, who is now charged with first-degree murder.

A pot-bellied pig is “touch and go” at Sarnia’s animal shelter, an official says, after the more than 200-pound animal was abandoned, possibly shoved under the fence at the Children’s Animal Farm.

House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers is being given a new plum assignment: Canada's new ambassador to Ireland.

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